Ink and Daggars Graphic Novel Preview!!

Christine Leaming ( AKA Ink and Daggers) and will soon be publishing a Graphic Novel as MK Ultra. She is mother to a delightful toddler, an avid reader, and a "leftist social justice activist" currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Christine is self-taught, and although not a spectrumite herself, is quite immersed in the Autism World. She has spent the last decade working with autistic children and their families. Christine created this work out of a sense of responsibility to her past clients and her autistic friends, and as a way to come to terms with the way society interacts with neurodiverse and otherwise marginalized people.

 "I hope that it can not only entertain, but educate those unfamiliar with life on the spectrum, as well as reflect the experiences of autistic individuals with authenticity, relatability and respect." Ink and Daggars

Here's a taste of the work in progress "Catch Point"

November 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah. Caleb Krauss, just shy of his sixteenth birthday, survives another day in a home that is in a state of continual dysfunction. Diagnosed with autism as toddlers, Caleb and his sister’s daily lives revolve around intensive therapy and biomedical interventions that their parents believe will eventually lead to a cure. Lonely and presumed incompetent, Caleb copes through his joyful obsessions, which include freight trains, Hayao Miyazaki movies, and the sweet neurotypical boy who volunteers in his special education class. But when Caleb discovers labor martyr Joe Hill and is inspired to run away from home, both his and his family’s routines and isolation become suddenly derailed.

In short, a queer, autistic, train-hopping teenager runs away from his abusive curebie family, leading to a massively misguided law enforcement investigation into his disappearance.

To find out more about this upcoming graphic novel, check out Ink and Daggars blog tumblr account here

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